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Australia at a glance - Australia's Culture Portal

Australia is a unique and diverse country in every way - in culture, population, climate, geography, and history. For articles on specific topics about Australian history and culture visit our Australian Stories Index. Australia's population is concentrat...

Australian music - Australia's Culture Portal

Indigenous music in Australia uses the environment itself to generate unique sounds and rhythms. Australian musicians performing across a range of genres, or styles, have achieved international recognition with a unique Australian approach. The opera sin...

Australian rivers - Australia's Culture Portal

Eventually, streams catch more water or join other streams to form a river. The Murray River and its main tributary, the Darling River, are the two main rivers in the Murray-Darling River Basin. The Snowy River is probably Australia's most famous river,...

Science in Australia - Australia's Culture Portal

Sir William Bragg - Nobel Prize for physics, 1915. Bragg shared the prize with his son (also Sir William Bragg). Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet - Nobel Prize for medicine, 1960. ...

Modern Australian architecture - Australia's Culture Portal

This is reflected in the development of an alternative model for public spaces and urban living based on social architecture and the 'green' apartment. Australia's modern residential architecture also reflects this change with architects using new environ...

The Snowy Mountains Scheme - Australia's Culture Portal

Image courtesy of the Snowy Hydro. The Snowy Mountains Hydro-Electric Scheme is by far the largest engineering project ever undertaken in Australia. What is the Snowy Mountains Scheme? ...

Australian inventions - Australia's Culture Portal

Image courtesy of the Sydney Morning Herald. Lawrence Hargrave, who achieved the first powered flight in 1894 with four box kites, was said to be symbolic of many Australian inventors and Australian innovation; 'He was interested in the invention, not th...

Baby boomers - Australia's Culture Portal

People born during this period became known as baby boomers. Combined with an increase in European migration to Australia, the baby boomers changed Australia (and the world) in the second half of the 20th century. Australian journalist Mark Davis argues...

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The Vanishing Continent: Australia's Degraded Environment - BEALE, Bob & FRAY, Peter   (website Secondhand and Antiquarian Books )

Binding: HardboundEdition: 1st EditionPublisher: Sydney Hodder & Stoughton 1990ISBN Number: 0340541229 / 9780340541227Seller ID: ID9986 Small Quarto Size. Near Fine copy in Near Fine dustjacket (now protected). Illustrated with Colour and Black & White ...

Australia State of the Environment Report 2001 - Glossary   (website Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts )

It includes the Australian Exclusive Economic Zone around the mainland, islands and the Australian Antarctic Territory (AAT) and the continental shelf off the mainland and the AAT. In relation to biodiversity: the protection, maintenance, management, sust...

Australia State of the Environment Report 2001 - Future directions   (website Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts )

The ASEC asserts that public action towards conservation and resource management will not, by itself, provide the necessary stimulus to achieve sustainability. Reliable data and information are key issues for SoE reporting in Australia. ANZLIC (Australi...

Australia State of the Environment Report 2001 - Executive Overview   (website Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts )

This Report by the Australian State of the Environment Committee (ASEC) provides an independent assessment of the condition of Australia's environment in the year 2001. Australia's Oceans Policy is addressing important marine environment planning and man...

Australia State of the Environment Report 2001 - Introduction   (website Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts )

The State of the Environment Report in 1996 (SoE 1996) provided the first independent and comprehensive account of the Australian environment and provided an excellent foundation for the ASEC to produce this State of the Environment Report (SoE 2001). The...

Australia State of the Environment Report 2001 - Thematic findings: Land   (website Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts )

Trend: Secondary salinity and acidity> Pressures are constant or increasing, condition is deteriorating and response is increasing (salinity only). Trend: Nutrient and carbon cycling> Pressures are constant or increasing, condition is static and response ...

National Museum of Australia - Environment   (website National Museum of Australia (NMA) )

NMA Homepage > Exhibitions > About community projects > Goolwa/Toowoomba > Environment Participants in this slideshow examine the importance of caring for their local environment and their understanding of issues around natural resource management. View ...

Australia State of the Environment 2006 - Contents   (website Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts )

The same reference is incorrect on the web pages http://www.environment.gov.au/soe/2006/publications/report/key-findings.html and http://www.environment.gov.au/soe/2006/publications/report/heritage-4.html. Beeton RJS (Bob), Buckley Kristal I, Jones Gary J...

Australia's unique environment and heritage screen saver   (website Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts )

Click on the link below and choose Run to install the screen saver. Double click on the saved file (deh-screensaver-2005.exe) to install the screen saver. To see your Display Properties menu, right click on your desktop, choose Properties and then the Scr...

Australia State of the Environment Report 2001 - Contents   (website Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts )

Australia State of the Environment 2001, Independent Report to the Commonwealth Minister for the Environment and Heritage, CSIRO Publishing on behalf of the Department of the Environment and Heritage, Canberra. This report was prepared by the ASEC and was...

Australia: State of the Environment 1996   (website Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts )

Australia: State of the Environment 1996, a report to the Commonwealth Minister for the Environment, is the first ever independent nation-wide assessment of the status of Australia's environment. Prepared by a group comprising Australia's kay scientists,...

National Museum of Australia - Environment Slideshow   (website National Museum of Australia (NMA) )

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